Models
3 models
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Roland TR-808
Analog drum machine
Drum machine · Japan
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is a programmable analog drum machine that Roland produced from 1980 to 1983. Its sounds are generated by analog circuitry rather than samples, giving it a distinctive booming kick, snappy snare, and sizzling cymbals and hi-hats. Commercially unsuccessful at launch, it became one of the most influential instruments in popular music, defining the low end of hip-hop, electro, and dance records and remaining a sought-after sound decades later.
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Roland TR-909
Drum machine
Drum machine · Japan
The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, introduced in 1983, is a drum machine that combined analog-synthesized drum voices with sampled cymbals and hi-hats. It added MIDI and a refined step sequencer, and its punchy kick, snappy snare, and bright hats became foundational to house and techno.
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Roland TR-606 Drumatik
The analog kit built to keep time for the TB-303
Drum machine · Japan
The 606 was sold as the rhythm half of a two-box practice rig with the TB-303, and both were commercial disappointments. Its voices are thin analog approximations — a snare that is mostly noise, a kick with almost no body — and that thinness is exactly what acid and electro producers later wanted.